Big Pharma, start your engines. This must be destroyed at all costs.

Cubansaltyballs: Big Pharma, start your engines. This must be destroyed at all costs.

More like, "let the bidding war begin". Pharma's are switching to a model where the academic researchers do the basic research and then work with pharmas to get it through clinical trials.

Still no cure for....oh wait.

Walker: Still no cure for....oh wait.

a molecular can of whoopass

still no cure from can, sir.

greentea1985: Cubansaltyballs: Big Pharma, start your engines. This must be destroyed at all costs.

More like, "let the bidding war begin". Pharma's are switching to a model where the academic researchers do the basic research and then work with pharmas to get it through clinical trials.

That only applies to the treatments that take months/years to administer. If there's a pill that cures cancer, they will destroy it because they'll only be able to make $500 instead of $150,000.

Here's hoping it works. My husband's friend has lymphoma- she's only 36. We're going to get tested for a bone marrow transplant but it's a long shot. :/ Cancer sucks.

Generic Fark Name: As a lymphoma survivor, I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

/ Seriously, this is good news
// Hope your husband's friend is hanging in there, Coco Ebert

She's doing well, thanks, and good to hear you're doing well. :)

an enzyme that cleaves the normally occurring protein ubiquitin from substrates like p53

I wonder where they might find this ubiquitin protein......?

Generic Fark Name: As a lymphoma survivor, I'm getting a kick out of these replies...

/ Seriously, this is good news
// Hope your husband's friend is hanging in there, Coco Ebert


Good luck from another lymphoma survivor.

And to be honest, if "Big Pharma" makes a few bucks on the deal, its alright with me.

maxheck: greentea1985

Cubansaltyballs: Big Pharma, start your engines. This must be destroyed at all costs.

More like, "let the bidding war begin". Pharma's are switching to a model where the academic researchers do the basic research and then work with pharmas to get it through clinical trials.

Switching to?

An enormous amount of basic research has been done either at the NIH or in labs funded by it since it's founding.

How many "NIH Brand" pharmaceuticals do you know of?

Well, heres the process. A lab at a major university makes an interesting discovery that could be sold for money. The lab takes it to the intellectual property office and works on an transfer agreement with the university and often sets up a biotech startup. The discovery is then sold to the pharmas who buy the biotech. Sometimes the step of making a biotech is skipped and the pharma directly buys the intellectual property rights, sending money back to the university. Either way, the university and the head of the lab get money for the discovery.